This year, the annual global observance will be observed on Thursday, June 12, 2025, marked under the theme, Progress is clear, but there's more to do: let’s speed up efforts.

Prevalence of child labour. Since 2000, for nearly two decades, the world had been making steady progress in reducing child labour. But over the past few years, conflicts, crises and the COVID-19 ...

Child labor is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south, where it is ...

Looking at other child labour statistics, we found that the majority (90%) of working children were Africans; above 60% were in the illegal age cohort of 7-14 years; and most were living in the rural ...

World Day Against Child Labour highlights the urgent need to end child exploitation worldwide, advocating education and safety for all children.

INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) in its recent report titled “Child Labour: Global Estimates 2024, Trends and the Road Forward" estimates that at least 138 million children (78 million boys and ...

A new report from UNICEF finds that there's been a lot of progress in the last 5 years when it comes to tackling child labor in many parts of the world. But sub-Saharan Africa has made less progress.

Two-thirds of all child labour takes place in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for around 87 million children, with only a small reduction from 23.9 per cent to 21.5 per cent over the last four years.

Velpur Mandal of Nizamabad district in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh was once notorious for child labour, but, in a dramatic way, became a rare exception of shunning child labour ...

“Children must be in school, not at work,” said Parks. Prof Lucien van der Walt, director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies ...

The world has missed its target of eliminating child labour by 2025 and funding cuts threaten recent progress on reducing the numbers of children in work, a new joint report by two United Nations ...

“Marking the World Day Against Child Labour aligns with the project’s objectives to raise awareness and galvanize action towards ending child labour in all its forms,” Ms. Yawson stated.